Oppose Ag-Only Farm Bill: Spends More Than Senate Bill; Changes Make Subsidies Permanent
July 11, 2013
Washington - In these early days of his second term, President Obama isn’t just promoting legislation on guns and immigration. The president...
WASHINGTON — Deficit spending and non-emergency items like repairing the Smithsonian's roof prompted Sen. Pat Toomey to vote against Sandy...
OLYMPIA — A few days after Washington lawmakers approved a budget deal to lower state spending last year, small-government Rep. Gary...
Washington - A long-awaited $50.5 billion Hurricane Sandy-relief bill is heading to President Obama for his signature -- and with that comes...
An hour before Northeast residents celebrate Congress' final approval of Sandy relief funds this evening, senators will be asked to...
Lobbyists representing interests more than a thousand miles from Hurricane Sandy’s landfall competed with East Coast beach towns and...
It’s deja vu all over again. Remember the “bridge to nowhere”? That was the proposed span from Ketchikan Alaska to Gravina Island —...
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a Republican, hammered Congress over their failure to pass a Sandy relief package in a timely manner. ...
Lawmakers in Washington have quibbled over disaster spending in the wake of the largest hurricane ever to roll up the East Coast.
Yet...
WASHINGTON -- Hope and change.
That's what Barack Obama promised -- again and again and again -- as he was campaigning for president in...
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Volume XVIII No. 37
Possible action in Syria has become the most recent excuse du jour for Pentagon boosters...
July 11, 2013